Kittredge Seen as Panama Canal Master In Senate
Washington January 17 Special correspondence notes South Dakota Senator Alfred B Kittredge as the foremost canal expert in Congress. He supported sea level plans, warned of higher costs for a lock canal, and has shaped major anti trust and patent legislation. He is praised for independence from corporations and strong constituent advocacy.
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South Dakota
Senate
Washington, D. C
Washington
Panama
Canal ‘Commission
Alfred B. Kittredge
Senate Committee
Senator Kittredge
Great Canal Authority
Kittredge
House
Canal Committee
Col. Goethals
Blackburn
Tawney
House Committee On Appropriations
Congress
Canal
Senate of the
United States
Fallng
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Department of Commerce and Labor
Lumber Trust
Hittredge
John
Monk
Hints for Farmers on Dairy Quality From Swiss Practices
Dr Freiber outlines causes of poor milk including fodder quality bad water dirty utensils foul air in stables udder cleanliness milk handling and cows with udder disease or in heat. He recommends three quarts crushed oats daily boiled barley with bran thrice weekly good hay and at least three hours daily exercise for cows. also notes exercise builds bone and muscle for colts.
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Freiber
Gus
Duncan Anderson
Canadian Institute
Winter Plowing Advice From43 Farmer Outlook
A farmer argues for early plowing of corn ground to prevent soil erosion and moisture loss. He notes potential leaching of plant food but says benefits include reduced worm activity and better moisture retention, making plowing advantageous on many soils despite objections.
First Winter Care for Colts and Growing Condition
The text stresses the importance of a colt's first winter, noting neglect leads to exposure or confinement causing lasting harm. It urges keeping the colt in good growing condition through liberal feeding and ample exercise to prevent setbacks.
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Ak Colt
Treating Unthrifty Trees With Manure
When trees show unthriftiness apply barnyard manure to revive vigor. Strong trees yield better fruit and resist pests. In old orchards use about half a wagonload per tree, spread to branch reach, coarse litter helps as mulch. If manure is well rotted, disk into the sod.
Tankage in Hog Rations Gains Noted At Station
The lown station reports tankage as a profitable addition to pig feed. A ration of one part tankage to five parts corn worked well, while some states achieved good results with one to fifteen. Some feeders mix two parts tankage with one part draw and one part ground eats, feeding one part of this mixture to eight to ten parts corn.
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Lown
Cattle Herd Advice From Holstein-Irish Register
The Holstein-Irishian Register urges a farmer to use scales twice daily in the stable and watch milk yield. It notes that sound cows increase in number while improving stock by replacing poor cows with calves from the best cows, a strategy of selling off the weakest and raising strong replacements.
Wasted Time and Art Challenge Big Money
A Louisville Courier Journal note quotes a dialogue where an artist claims to sell pictures and argues that art can be as lucrative as life insurance or steel bridges. The exchange satirizes risk and value in creative work.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Catching Moments Spanish Proverb Insight
A compact proverb note reflects on how plans slip when pursued, capturing the idea that effort can backfire inwardly and moments of opportunity reveal truth in pursuit.
Sign on Window Prompts Garment Debate
A tall man argues with a shopman over the window sign Ready to Wear Garments Inside. The visitor, calling for punctuation and clarity, suggests adding hyphens to transform the phrase into a sensible label. The exchange ends with a jab at public education and a polite departure.
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Chicago Tribune
Boy protests kisses from well meaning friends
A judge records a child named Little Johnnie resisting maternal friends kissing him. He endures the social ceremony with effort and later rubs powder from his face, saying it tastes like kissing a marshmallow.
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Johnnie
What It Is The Enthusiastic and The Practical
The text contrasts romance with winter explainable by pipes bursting in Brownings. It contrasts enthusiastic feeling with practical damage as water pipes burst, creating a vivid winter scene.
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Jung
Browning
A Run of Luck
A London mail fragment portrays a disheartened man lamenting misfortune from market woes to furniture damage a Bank of England note loss and a double gas deposit while facing jury service in a run of bad luck narrative.
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Ruffien
Trumbull
Bank of England
London Mail
A Choice of Evils in a Houston Post Exchange
A quoted exchange shows a parent and another party debating music lessons for a daughter. The first speaker offers lessons at home and practice there, while the second proposes bringing the daughter to the home of her son for practice and lessons.
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Houston Post
Mountain View Wedding Tale in the Mountains
A fragmentary tale describes a mountain wedding scene with garb and a white ground streak. The narrator exclaims at a possible bill or omen while recalling Transatlantic Tales.
Oklahoma and Virginia Senators Draw Lots for Terms
The new Oklahoma senators include Robert L Owens who is one eighth Cherokee and about fifty, a Democrat with deep ties to the Cherokee Nation and a long Washington presence. The senior senator from Oklahoma is Virginia born, educated at Washington and Lee, who practiced law in Muskogee and held Indian service roles. In a lighter note, Boston humor about L M Spier and Reynolds describes a crank powered car mishap and a quip about Spier’s bubble top.
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Oklahoma
Robert L. Owen
Commonwealth
Owen
Virginia
Wash
Ington and Lee University
Cherokee Nation
Muskogee
Cherokee National Schools
Indian Chieftain
Cleveland
Five Civilized Tribes
First National Bank
Territory
National Democratic Committee
Ile
Washbington
National Capital
Spier
Reynolds
Reynolds takes pledge against car rides
The Hon Jim Reynolds announces a formal pledge to never ride in an automobile again. He clarifies this does not indicate alignment with national prohibition efforts but is a personal stance.
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Jim Reynolds
Washington
Whittier A Portrait of a Complex Quaker Poet
The piece portrays Whittier as steady and joyful in noble aims yet uneasy in social settings. It notes his capacity for laughter and storytelling, and cites his nephew and biographer Caroline Ticknor on his composed exterior masking a tempestuous, assertive nature that fueled his politics and reform work.
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Whittier
Society of
Caroline Ticknor
Harper's Weekly
Drowning Straws and Planks Prompt Debate
A dialogue from the New York Journal contrasts drowning men seeking straws with those preferring a plank. Towne voices skepticism, recalling many drownings and noting few requests for a straw from any gentleman in danger.
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Browne
Towne
New York Journal
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